NATO’s first military action. In the first military action in NATO’s 45-year history, U.S. fighters downed four Serbian warplanes violating the Bosnian no-fly zone on a bombing mission. Founded in 1949 to prevent Soviet aggression, in 1994 NATO offered to enforce UN resolutions aimed at ending three years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In 1995, NATO deployed 60,000 troops to the troubled region in implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords, signed in Paris by the leaders of the former Yugoslavia.
